INDIANAPOLIS — (BUSINESS WIRE) — August 9, 2011 —
Pearson announced today the release of innovative and authoritative
books for both professionals and enthusiasts on a wide range of topics
in computer graphics, human-computer interaction, and programming at the
SIGGRAPH conference, taking place August 7-11 in Vancouver, BC.
Published under the imprints of Addison-Wesley and Prentice Hall, the
new titles show users the realities of today’s design processes through
use of comprehensive and advanced techniques, and easy-to-use guides for
graphic programming.

New books include:

OpenCL
Programming Guide, written by five leading OpenCL
authorities (
Aaftab
Munshi, Benedict Gaster, Timothy Mattson, Dan Ginsburg, and
James
Fung), which targets working developers and software architects. The
authors provide a complete reference to API and OpenCL programming
language, present the essentials of OpenCL software performance
optimization, and through reviews of key use case studies and
downloadable code examples, show how to write complex parallel
algorithms. Book and eBook are currently both available at InformIT.com
and major book sellers.

Rough Cuts (early access to an author’s developing manuscript) being
announced include:

Core
Python Applications Programming, Third Edition written by
Wesley
Chun. This book teaches developers who are ready to expand their
Python skills and go beyond the language and its syntax how to apply
their skills to application programming. Delivering hundreds of
industrial-strength code snippets and examples, the new edition contains
not only a high-level introduction to the topic but also provides
real-world insights for developing applications in Python. Book and
eBook are slated to release in early 2012.

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